Death & Dying

Stephen's Death

Acts 7:59

… We may leave the testimony of death to be given us in the same hour. We shall have dying Grace in dying moments, but at the present time …

Joseph's Bones

Hebrews 11:22

… as an instance of dying faith in this particular matter of His Holies, but to award praise to Joseph as exhibiting in death a memorable degree of confidence …

Psalm 99

Psalm 99

… Aben-Ezra called him Cohen haccohanim , the priest of priests; and Philo, writing his life, concludeth, This was the life and death of Moses the king, the lawgiver …

John Ploughman's Pictures

… while he lives, and wash him away to his grave before his time. The old Scotchman said, " Death and drink-draining are near neigh- bors," and he spoke …

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… We must die a felon's death. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? — M. M'Michael. Verse 3. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark …

Our Lord's Last Cry from the Cross

Luke 23:46

… death! The words were much hackneyed in Romish times, but they are not spoilt even for that. They used to be said in the Latin by dying men …

Evening, May 2

Heb 11:13

… To them the pains of death were but the birth-pangs of a better state. Take courage, my soul, as thou readest this epitaph. Thy course, through grace …

To Die Or Not To Die!

2 Corinthians 5:8

… to whom death is admission into immortality? You to whom death is but the end of dying and the beginning of life? You fear death? Why Sirs, surely …

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… Have we not all agreed to hound the man to the death, and who dare hint that so many great ones can be mistaken? Yet the persecuted one …

Psalm 2

Psalm 2

… What would they have, then? his blood? Yea, "they took counsel," saith Matthew, "to put him to death." They had the devil's mind, which is not satisfied …

The Sunday-School Teacher—A Steward

Luke 16:2

… That is the thing which makes death so terrible. Oh, Death, if thou wert all, what art thou but a pinch, and all is over! But after Death …

Psalm 57

Psalm 57

… As David was in death, so Christ the Son of David was in the grave. John Boys, 1571-1625. Verse 1. Be merciful unto me, O God, etc …

Psalm 121

Psalm 121

… Etymologically, the first is the stronger word, and it occurs in Ps 76:5 6 of the sleep of death. In this instance there is no real distinction …

The Three Hours' Darkness

Matthew 27:45

… This darkness, also, Christ, by dying, took away. Up till the death of Christ, if man had desired salvation, he could not have found the way. He was …

Early Criticisms and Slanders (Continued)

… Spurgeon,” in which it said: — “We are accustomed to look grave when the old mysteries and miracle-plays are mentioned. We pity the ignorance of those ancestors of …

Preparing to Depart

2 Kings 2:11

… Why should I grip so tightly that which death must and will tear from me? Why should I set my affections so ardently upon a dying thing that …

Psalm 46

Psalm 46

… He breaketh the bow, the sender of swift winged death he renders useless. And cutteth the spear in sunder —the lance of the mighty man he shivers. He …

Psalm 3

Psalm 3

… And now death is not death, but a sleep; and the tomb not a tomb, but a bed and resting place; which was the reason why the words …

The Objective of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… But because the cry, "It is finished," rang out from the lips of the dying Sufferer of Calvary, we rejoice to set forth His death to all who …

Psalm 60

Psalm 60

… promised conquests? Thus dare we defy the last enemy, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" So utterly hopeless is the cause of …

The Great Attraction

John 12:32

… He must draw you! Think much upon His death. Turn, this afternoon, to those chapters in the Evangelists where His death is recorded. Picture that dying Savior to …

Compassion for Souls

Genesis 21:16

… Like Hagar, the compassionate spirit says, “Let me not see the death of the child,” or as some have read it, “How can I see the death of …

Evening, December 14

Ga 2:20

… He believed that by virtue of Christ’s death, he had satisfied divine justice, and found reconciliation with God. Beloved, what a blessed thing it is when the …

A Solemn Enquiry Concerning Our Families

Genesis 19:12

… were, yourself, this morning very near death. O my Hearers, I sometimes think of the time when I shall lie a-dying—when all alone my spirit must …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… A bold brave youth has found a liquid grave. So that here, there, everywhere, O Death ! I see thy doings. At home, abroad, on the sea, and across …

A Gospel Worth Dying For

Acts 20:24

… Men, to the teeth of tyrants, have proclaimed it and have suffered the loss of all things—they went to prison and to death for it—all the …

The Feast of the Lord

… Show my death till I come." The preacher is to go on preaching a dying Saviour; the saint is to go on trusting that dying Saviour, feeding on …

Christ's Connection With Sinners the Source of His Glory

Isaiah 53:12

… He spoiled no man of his goods—He only brought death on death, destruction on the Destroyer and captivity upon captivity. In all His spoils men are gainers …

For Whom Did Christ Die?

Romans 5:6

… besides dying, but the crowning act of his career of love for the ungodly, and that which rendered all the rest available to them, was his death for …

Little, But Lovely

Luke 12:32

… that you may say, with Halliday, "Call this dying? Then it is worthwhile to live, to die like this!" Death may have more of translation than of dissolution …

Christ's Marvellous Giving

Titus 2:14

… He did not die because we merited that, he should love us to the death; on the contrary, we merited that he should hate us; we deserved that …

Beginning to Serve the Lord

… I saw him, and talked to him, and tried to point him to the Savior, and heard at last the death-rattle in his throat; and as I …

Swooning and Reviving Christ's Feet

… death-shade, and you will not fear to follow in His track. Where should the dying members rest but on the same couch with their once dying Head …

The Minister in These Times

… A sick wife, a newly-made grave, poverty, slander, sinking of spirit, might teach lessons nowhere else to be learned so well. Trials drive us to the realities …

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… steps from the grave, some hastening on to the abyss of woe, walking with the giddy multitude in the way which leads to death and eternal destruction. God …

Christ Made Sin

2 Corinthians 5:21

… Justice is magnified, Wisdom extolled, Grace resplendent, and every attribute of God glorified! Oh, let us, at the very mention of a dying Savior, bow down and adore …

Satan, Self, Sin and the Savior

Mark 5:9

… Watts— "I sing my Savior's wondrous death; He conquered when He fell! 'Tis finished! 'said His dying breath, And shook the gates of Hell! His Cross a …

Fine Pleading

Psalm 106:4

… Visit me with Your salvation." I suggest, Christian Brothers and Sisters, that this prayer will do for you living, and will do for you dying! It is a …

The Christian's Great Business

Psalm 51:12-13

… Sinners are dying! Every hour hurries a company of them into eternity. They are carried away as with a flood! They fall like grass before the mower's …

The Agreement Of Salvation By Grace With Walking In Good Works

Ephesians 2:9

… A man is dying, smitten suddenly by the death-blast. I go to his bedside, as requested. Consciousness remains, but he is evidently in mortal agony. He has …